Date   : Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:34:43 +0200
From   : "Mark Usher" <marku@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Hard Disks

>As it so hard to find a hard drive and interface which would work with the
>BBC, I was wondering - why not use a PC hard disk instead?
The SCSI and ST506 are hard disks that are also used in PC's !

>If you had a pc
>as well, you could serial link the two together, and use some of the PC's
>hard drive space as a BBC partition?  I know it would mean partitioning the
>hard disk in a certain way - but could it be done?
Yes it could be done, but is would be far too slow, slower that a floppy,
thus defeating one of the main advantages of a hard disc.

>I'm not really too sure, as PC's are usually IDE, I suppose it would need
>modifications to the filing system on the BBC, and possibly some kind of
>program on the PC??
No, it wouldn't need modifications to the filing system, you would have to
build a host adapter to go between the 1MHZ bus and the IDE drive. In fact
exactly what has been posted, just for IDE instead of SCSI 1.

Mark